Smaug123

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by Smaug123 5y ago
None of this helps you understand how merging works, of course. Pro Git is great at telling you mechanically how to merge, but doesn't explain at all what can go wrong, and I don't think it actually describes the merge algorithm a
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by Smaug123 5y ago
Suppose I type a line into a file, and then I ask you what I just did. If you answered "You updated the contents of the file from <complete contents of the file> to <complete contents of the file>", I'd look at yo
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by Smaug123 5y ago
For example, Git a) has some really upsetting merge semantics, and b) can only remember how to resolve merge conflicts you've solved before via the hack that is `git rerere` - which I call a hack because it is entirely not part of the
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by Smaug123 5y ago
Well, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molyneux%27s_problem has been experimentally tested and it turns out that congenitally blind people, who are then granted sight, cannot automatically identify texture by sight alone;
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by Smaug123 5y ago
Yes, player character. One with agency over their own life and decisions.
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by Smaug123 5y ago
By the way, another analogy: I recently wrote a microKanren in F#. I taught this microKanren arithmetic with the Peano naturals; it knew how to count, and it knew what 37 was, but the encoding is very inefficient and it was slow to count. T
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by Smaug123 5y ago
The experience of colour is a fact about the brain, yes, which is additional to the knowledge of colour. A very simple system - a camera - can have knowledge of colour without the experience of colour. We say that something "knows&quot
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by Smaug123 5y ago
I do think that's a bit unfair. I consider one of the morals of HPMoR to be "at every stage, Dumbledore did the only thing he could do to avoid disaster, and everyone was really awful to him for it but he did the right thing anywa
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by Smaug123 5y ago
It may be a million words of fake profundities for nerds, but it came to me at the right time to nudge me towards the PC end of the NPC/PC spectrum at university. I'm sure I'm a better person for having read it, and my friend
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by Smaug123 5y ago
Does it highlight what you meant? I'm not at all sure it does, since I consider a Chinese room to be conscious (being an execution of a faithful encoding of the consciousness that created the room).
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by Smaug123 5y ago
I mean, I'd call those deepities rather than profundities. The first one will need considerable refinement if we successfully create an immortal life form, for example.
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by Smaug123 5y ago
Honestly I had a number of quite expensive sessions with a therapist, and the main benefit I got from them was the message "how you feel is almost completely down to your physical state". This site could have been made personally
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by Smaug123 5y ago
It can be quite crippling - I was distressingly oh-god-snatch-your-children-away-from-the-monster thin until about the age of 15, and I have to be constantly paying attention to catch hunger before I lose a misery-wracked evening to lying u
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by Smaug123 5y ago
I mean, I have to be concentrating quite hard to feel the emotion you're referring to. The default way I experience hunger is just a generalised increasing misery and inability to think. If I'm lucky enough to get a specific cue,
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by Smaug123 5y ago
I think your point assumes that all experts are always wrong, which is a point on which we disagree. Many people call themselves experts and are often wrong - though I would call such people "pundits" rather than "experts&q
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by Smaug123 5y ago
I will never not correct this quote: > “I think the people in this country have had enough of experts... from organisations with acronyms saying that they know what is best and getting it consistently wrong." (My ellipsis here is to
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by Smaug123 5y ago
Do check whether you're clinically depressed - it's not particularly likely (I wouldn't call it probable), but there's a chance your anti-motivation is of a pattern that is easily treated chemically.
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by Smaug123 5y ago
(The underlying issue is https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/91598 .)
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by Smaug123 5y ago
If your language is capable of expressing "this part of the code can't access the network", in a general way such that networking is not some special snowflake that's baked in, then you've created an effects syste
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by Smaug123 5y ago
Christmas is ancient . As long as there has been winter, people have had a festival during its deepest depths, to remind them that the spring will come.
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by Smaug123 5y ago
"Labour" is a party name, and it is singular. "Liberal Democrats" is a party name, and it is plural. The verb is agreeing with the number of the noun, just as is usual in English.
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by Smaug123 5y ago
I don't really know what more you wanted from `Module[{y}, 1+y] /. y -> 10`. You've explicitly asked for a new symbol that is unrelated to the global one, and then replaced any occurrences of the global one with 10. Of cou
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by Smaug123 5y ago
I think you're making it easy on yourself by choosing "a library whose sole purpose is to stamp out the boilerplate needed to work around Go's lack of generic algebraic data types" to demonstrate how good generics are :P
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It is not and has never been open-source. In fact they wrote https://blog.wolfram.com/2019/04/02/why-wolfram-tech-isnt-op... .
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by Smaug123 5y ago
My second dose was in Guy's, and the waiting area was at full capacity. (I would have quite happily gone to sit immediately outside the tent, but that was forbidden.) My third dose was in a community hall, with about the same number of
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by Smaug123 5y ago
Version control is very easy as long as you're not versioning notebooks. A `.m` file is just plain text.
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Launching Version 13.0 of Wolfram Language and Mathematica(blog.wolfram.com)
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by Smaug123 5y ago
Leave all the classes and apps and everything that's organised, and do it all yourself; you'll have enough knowledge and motivation by that point.
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by Smaug123 5y ago
No, they're not - at least if teams have some base level of autonomy. A team could choose to grow itself along the dimensions in https://danluu.com/culture/ without the company even knowing.
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by Smaug123 5y ago
You can always convert it to JSON before consumption.

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